Very cool Peter! Really looking forward to your photos with this and how it renders vs. the modern lenses.
I just bought a Cron Dual Range 50mm (same as the Rigid essentially) for the MM and following a bit of Ashwin and others lead on this. Should be fun.
Hi Andrew,
Congratulations on the new lens – it’s definitely a classic.
All of these older lenses are technically inferior to their modern counterparts, without a doubt. Still, they have their charms, but I wouldn’t use them often for my work.
Peter.
Mine’s bigger!
Heh heh…hilarious. There must be a run on these things: Acquired a Type I Collapsible that looks a bit more recent than yours, Peter. I posted a pic with it on my site awhile back. Definitely gives you a lot more latitude with the Monocrom files.
The used lens vendors should be paying Ashwin commission!
Hope you’re both well–happy “Celebration of our Colonial Monarchy” day!
M.
I sort of came upon this on a recent trade-in, but I don’t think I’ll keep it. The performance of the modern lenses are a couple of notches above this. If anybody wants mine, feel free to contact me.
Incidentally, this is a late serial number one with full lens coating.
A lens that dates back to the Spanish Civil War, to the year Picasso painted Guernica, perhaps the most famous painting by the world’s most famous painter; a lens that could have been used by Robert Capa to shoot the falling militiaman, one of the most famous of all war time images, on the camera that revolutionized documentary photography by separating from the tripod and being able to shoot 36 exposure before needing to reload. Truly an historic little jewel. I hope you manage to shoot a couple of rolls of Tri-X with it mounted on the M3 before you send it on its way.
Thanks for the guilt trip Greg 🙂
I know I *should* keep this lens, but honestly, it’s so far technically behind my two most used lenses that it belongs with somebody who will appreciate it.
Peter.
Don’t intend either guilt trip or to suggest keeping it, it would not suit what yo do, but as you’ve so often pointed out remembrance is a worthy end in itself.
So true.
Wow…that was great Greg! Truly, Peter, you have no soul…
🙂
Incidentally, there was one school that said the Capa shot was staged…maybe that’s why Peter is ditching the lens?
All the best,
M.
I say to ye, be wary of Idolatry.
Recent research suggests both that Capa’s girlfriend actually made the shot and the militiaman slipped and fell on the steep slope he was on and had not been shot at all. Certainly in his youth Capa was quite political and not above a little propaganda in support of his views. Still, he waded ashore with the GI’s at Normandy, and died when he stepped on a land mine in Vietnam, so I tend to be pretty “easy” on him about the militiaman thing.
Prosophos 
Very cool Peter! Really looking forward to your photos with this and how it renders vs. the modern lenses.
I just bought a Cron Dual Range 50mm (same as the Rigid essentially) for the MM and following a bit of Ashwin and others lead on this. Should be fun.
Hi Andrew,
Congratulations on the new lens – it’s definitely a classic.
All of these older lenses are technically inferior to their modern counterparts, without a doubt. Still, they have their charms, but I wouldn’t use them often for my work.
Peter.
Mine’s bigger!
Heh heh…hilarious. There must be a run on these things: Acquired a Type I Collapsible that looks a bit more recent than yours, Peter. I posted a pic with it on my site awhile back. Definitely gives you a lot more latitude with the Monocrom files.
The used lens vendors should be paying Ashwin commission!
Hope you’re both well–happy “Celebration of our Colonial Monarchy” day!
M.
I sort of came upon this on a recent trade-in, but I don’t think I’ll keep it. The performance of the modern lenses are a couple of notches above this. If anybody wants mine, feel free to contact me.
Incidentally, this is a late serial number one with full lens coating.
A lens that dates back to the Spanish Civil War, to the year Picasso painted Guernica, perhaps the most famous painting by the world’s most famous painter; a lens that could have been used by Robert Capa to shoot the falling militiaman, one of the most famous of all war time images, on the camera that revolutionized documentary photography by separating from the tripod and being able to shoot 36 exposure before needing to reload. Truly an historic little jewel. I hope you manage to shoot a couple of rolls of Tri-X with it mounted on the M3 before you send it on its way.
Thanks for the guilt trip Greg 🙂
I know I *should* keep this lens, but honestly, it’s so far technically behind my two most used lenses that it belongs with somebody who will appreciate it.
Peter.
Don’t intend either guilt trip or to suggest keeping it, it would not suit what yo do, but as you’ve so often pointed out remembrance is a worthy end in itself.
So true.
Wow…that was great Greg! Truly, Peter, you have no soul…
🙂
Incidentally, there was one school that said the Capa shot was staged…maybe that’s why Peter is ditching the lens?
All the best,
M.
I say to ye, be wary of Idolatry.
Recent research suggests both that Capa’s girlfriend actually made the shot and the militiaman slipped and fell on the steep slope he was on and had not been shot at all. Certainly in his youth Capa was quite political and not above a little propaganda in support of his views. Still, he waded ashore with the GI’s at Normandy, and died when he stepped on a land mine in Vietnam, so I tend to be pretty “easy” on him about the militiaman thing.